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On 10/23/2012 11:15 AM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several
> sources with directions.
>
> thanks.
>
> My biggest problem now is just trying to get ubuntu running headless in
> virtualbox.
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:09 AM, bsquared <bwcode4u@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, JC de Villa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <mark@hahnca.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend
>> projects
>>>> I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending money.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to see
>> if
>>>> they can donate the hosting.
>>>>
>>>> I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in virtualbox on
>> my
>>>> local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just want a
>>>> headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried to
>> set
>>>> one up myself but it was a disaster.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the page for the server download:
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
>>>
>>> Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one
>>> available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa
>> somewhere
>>> for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly
>> trivial.
>>>
>>
>> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several
>> sources with directions. I made a quick reference here:
>> gist.github.com/3940371
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>
By headless I assume that you mean you don't wish to run X. Just have a
server for telnet / ssh.
You are not limited to Ubuntu by the way. You may want to look at
Arch-Linux, or RedHat. Anyway ...
I found this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time.
--
Regards,
Brian